Backgammon (1630)
Playtime: 30
Min. Age: 8
Players: 2
Publisher: Galleryplay, M Petrushkin, P:OS Handels GmbH, E. S. Lowe Company Inc., Wild & Wolf, Estrela, 3M, Palet spil, Harlekin, Gamut of Games, Ariel Productions Ltd, Dos Reis, StirlingFox, Square Root Games, Masters Games, Bütehorn Spiele (Buchholz Verlag), Cayro, The Games, CHH Games, Whitman, Dynamic Games / Dynamic Design Industries, Fame Products, Waddingtons, Cardinal, Gibsons, Editions ATLAS, Bello Games New York, Inc., Zontik Games, Fundex, House Martin, Fifth Avenue Crystal Ltd., Pressman Toy Corp., Merit, Classic Toys, Skor-Mor, Vennerød Forlag AS, WHSmith, (Unknown), Brio AB, Ghisò, Galison, Marigó, El Greco, Alga, ASS Altenburger Spielkarten, OPEN'N PLAY, Gammon Games, Halsall, Juegos Ya S.L., Bisonte, Golden, Arrow Games Ltd, Piatnik, Waddington Sanders Ltd., Dal Negro, Inovac Rima SA, K.E.Leg, Hector Saxe, Basic Fun, Inc., American Express, Joker, play time, Gigliodoro, (Public Domain), Marlboro, Saitek, Top Mark, HEMA, Schou, Origem, Gold Medal, Game Factory, HABA, Pelikan, Editrice Giochi, Glevum Games, Fratelli Fabbri Editori (Fabbri Editore), Jumbo, Matsui Gaming Machine, Unicorn Products, The Toy Network, Planet Finska, Crisloid, Przedsiebiorstwo Zagraniczne LABO, Westside Fun Games, Ramsons, Peri Spiele, ABRA, John N. Hansen Co., Inc., Deuce, House of Marbles, Smethport Specialty Co., Dilemma Games, Philos, Croner, Neroulia, Otto Maier Verlag, RoseArt, Majora, Sladecolour Board Games, Pleasantime Games, Kingstone International, Creative Crafthouse, S & E, Challenge Master Game Co Ltd, Noris Spiele, Chadwick Miller Inc., Chad Valley Co Ltd., Tactic, Caribou Mountaineering, Inc., Wm F. Drueke & Sons, Inc., Diset S. A., Ravensburger, (Self-Published), Schmidt International, Invicta Games, Schmidt Spiele, Silk Cut, Heyne, Pin International, Milton Bradley, Magnetic Poetry Inc, Flying Tiger Copenhagen, IRWIN Games, Søstrene Grene, Super Accord, National Novelty Corp., Węgiel, Mitra, Wood Expressions, Regionalia Verlag GmbH, MB Spiele, John Sands Pty Ltd, Schmidt France, Maxco, Spear's Games, Pavilion, F.X. Schmid, Pintoy, nestorgames, L. P. Septímio, Western Publishing Company, The Purple Cow, Lagoon Games, LuduScience, Berliner Spielkarten, Selchow & Righter, Pendleton, John Jaques of London, MB Spellen, Daells Varehus, Oriental Trading Company, Dino Toys s. r. o., Hasbro, Paul Lamond Games Ltd, Poolmaster, Ludens Planet, The Op Games, Sterling Games, Carlit, Cathay, Blatz, Klee, Reiss Games, Friendly Games, Inc.
Designers: (Uncredited)
Artists: Willem Cornelisz Duyster, Christian Lacroix
Mechanics: Dice Rolling, Track Movement, Betting and Bluffing, Race, Roll / Spin and Move, Score-and-Reset Game, Static Capture
Min. Age: 8
Players: 2
Publisher: Galleryplay, M Petrushkin, P:OS Handels GmbH, E. S. Lowe Company Inc., Wild & Wolf, Estrela, 3M, Palet spil, Harlekin, Gamut of Games, Ariel Productions Ltd, Dos Reis, StirlingFox, Square Root Games, Masters Games, Bütehorn Spiele (Buchholz Verlag), Cayro, The Games, CHH Games, Whitman, Dynamic Games / Dynamic Design Industries, Fame Products, Waddingtons, Cardinal, Gibsons, Editions ATLAS, Bello Games New York, Inc., Zontik Games, Fundex, House Martin, Fifth Avenue Crystal Ltd., Pressman Toy Corp., Merit, Classic Toys, Skor-Mor, Vennerød Forlag AS, WHSmith, (Unknown), Brio AB, Ghisò, Galison, Marigó, El Greco, Alga, ASS Altenburger Spielkarten, OPEN'N PLAY, Gammon Games, Halsall, Juegos Ya S.L., Bisonte, Golden, Arrow Games Ltd, Piatnik, Waddington Sanders Ltd., Dal Negro, Inovac Rima SA, K.E.Leg, Hector Saxe, Basic Fun, Inc., American Express, Joker, play time, Gigliodoro, (Public Domain), Marlboro, Saitek, Top Mark, HEMA, Schou, Origem, Gold Medal, Game Factory, HABA, Pelikan, Editrice Giochi, Glevum Games, Fratelli Fabbri Editori (Fabbri Editore), Jumbo, Matsui Gaming Machine, Unicorn Products, The Toy Network, Planet Finska, Crisloid, Przedsiebiorstwo Zagraniczne LABO, Westside Fun Games, Ramsons, Peri Spiele, ABRA, John N. Hansen Co., Inc., Deuce, House of Marbles, Smethport Specialty Co., Dilemma Games, Philos, Croner, Neroulia, Otto Maier Verlag, RoseArt, Majora, Sladecolour Board Games, Pleasantime Games, Kingstone International, Creative Crafthouse, S & E, Challenge Master Game Co Ltd, Noris Spiele, Chadwick Miller Inc., Chad Valley Co Ltd., Tactic, Caribou Mountaineering, Inc., Wm F. Drueke & Sons, Inc., Diset S. A., Ravensburger, (Self-Published), Schmidt International, Invicta Games, Schmidt Spiele, Silk Cut, Heyne, Pin International, Milton Bradley, Magnetic Poetry Inc, Flying Tiger Copenhagen, IRWIN Games, Søstrene Grene, Super Accord, National Novelty Corp., Węgiel, Mitra, Wood Expressions, Regionalia Verlag GmbH, MB Spiele, John Sands Pty Ltd, Schmidt France, Maxco, Spear's Games, Pavilion, F.X. Schmid, Pintoy, nestorgames, L. P. Septímio, Western Publishing Company, The Purple Cow, Lagoon Games, LuduScience, Berliner Spielkarten, Selchow & Righter, Pendleton, John Jaques of London, MB Spellen, Daells Varehus, Oriental Trading Company, Dino Toys s. r. o., Hasbro, Paul Lamond Games Ltd, Poolmaster, Ludens Planet, The Op Games, Sterling Games, Carlit, Cathay, Blatz, Klee, Reiss Games, Friendly Games, Inc.
Designers: (Uncredited)
Artists: Willem Cornelisz Duyster, Christian Lacroix
Mechanics: Dice Rolling, Track Movement, Betting and Bluffing, Race, Roll / Spin and Move, Score-and-Reset Game, Static Capture
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Backgammon is a classic abstract strategy game dating back thousands of years. Each player has a set of 15 checkers (or stones) that must be moved from their starting positions, around, and then off the board. Dice are thrown each turn, and each player must decide which of their checkers to move based on the outcome of the roll. Players can capture each other's checkers, forcing the captured checkers to restart their journey around the board. The winner is the first player to get all 15 checkers off the board. A more recent addition to the game is the "doubling cube", which allows players to up the stakes of the game. Although the game relies on dice to determine movement, there is a large degree of strategy in deciding how to make the most effective moves given each dice roll and measuring the risk in terms of possible rolls the opponent may get.
Backgammon may be the first game to be mentioned in written history, going back 5,000 years to the Sumerians of ancient Mesopotamia. During the 1920s, archaeologists unearthed five boards from a cemetery in the ancient town of Ur. At another location, pieces and dice were also found along with the board. Boards from ancient Egypt have also been recovered from the tomb of Tutankhamun, including a mechanical dice box, no doubt intended to stop cheaters.
The names of the game were many. In Persia, Takhteh Nard which means "Battle on Wood". In Egypt, Tau, which may be the ancestor of Senat. In Rome, Ludus Duodecim Scriptorum ("game of twelve marks"), later, Tabula ("table"), and by the sixth century, Alea ("dice"). In ancient China, T-shu-p-u and later in Japan, Sugoroko. The English name may derive from "Bac gamen" meaning "Back Game", referring to re-entry of taken stones back to the board. It was often enjoyed by the upper classes and is sometimes called "The Aristocratic Game". The Roman Emperor Claudius was known to be such a fan of Tabula that he had a set built into his coach so he could play as he traveled (the world's first travel edition?).
The rules in English were standardized in 1743 by Edmond Hoyle. These remained popular until the American innovations of the 1930s.
Backgammon may be the first game to be mentioned in written history, going back 5,000 years to the Sumerians of ancient Mesopotamia. During the 1920s, archaeologists unearthed five boards from a cemetery in the ancient town of Ur. At another location, pieces and dice were also found along with the board. Boards from ancient Egypt have also been recovered from the tomb of Tutankhamun, including a mechanical dice box, no doubt intended to stop cheaters.
The names of the game were many. In Persia, Takhteh Nard which means "Battle on Wood". In Egypt, Tau, which may be the ancestor of Senat. In Rome, Ludus Duodecim Scriptorum ("game of twelve marks"), later, Tabula ("table"), and by the sixth century, Alea ("dice"). In ancient China, T-shu-p-u and later in Japan, Sugoroko. The English name may derive from "Bac gamen" meaning "Back Game", referring to re-entry of taken stones back to the board. It was often enjoyed by the upper classes and is sometimes called "The Aristocratic Game". The Roman Emperor Claudius was known to be such a fan of Tabula that he had a set built into his coach so he could play as he traveled (the world's first travel edition?).
The rules in English were standardized in 1743 by Edmond Hoyle. These remained popular until the American innovations of the 1930s.
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